ROME, Italy– The ultra-progressive National Catholic Reporter has actually named Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez “newsmaker of 2021” as a backhanded compliment implied to highlight the prelate’s failure to worship at the altar of Joe Biden.
“On Joe Biden’s inauguration day,” the paper observes in a December 17 editorial, Archbishop Gomez “released a 1,200-word declaration outlining disputes about policies that ‘would advance moral evils,’ though likewise providing his prayers.”
“It was just the beginning of what would end up being a yearlong divisive, pointless project to smear the nation’s 2nd Catholic president, a campaign led by Gomez,” regrets the Press reporter, a longtime shill of the Democratic Celebration.
US President Joe Biden, left, speak to Pope Francis as they meet at the Vatican, Friday, Oct. 29, 2021. President Joe Biden met Pope Francis on Friday at the Vatican, where the world’s two most noteworthy Roman Catholics prepare to discuss the COVID-19 pandemic, climate change and hardship.(Vatican Media by means of AP)”As head of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops for the previous two years, Gomez has squandered his presidency battling dead-end culture wars,”the editorial states. “The year was bookended by Gomez’s moves to assault Biden and a year-end speech denigrating social and racial justice motions that do the work of the Gospel. “”In an organization whose history is peppered with unsuccessful leaders, it is tough to discover one less accomplished,”the paper declares.”For this, we name Archbishop José Gomez as NCR’s
Newsmaker of 2021.”What seemed to actually get under the Reporter‘s collective skin is Archbishop Gomez’s hesitation to recite from the leftist script that all Latinos are anticipated to welcome uncritically– something comparable to Biden’s demeaning and bigoted comment that if you stop working to support him “you ain’t black.”
“Gomez’s actions have been especially frustrating provided the enjoyment amongst Latino Catholics when the Mexican-born prelate was elected in 2019 as the first Latino to hold the post of president of the U.S. bishops’ conference,” the Press reporter bemoans.
Rather of defending the lives of unborn children, supporting the family, or protecting spiritual freedom, the archbishop must have utilized his presidency to do things like “make the church an active leader in the racial numeration happening in our country,” the editorial states, and “lead the battle versus climate change to save our world.”
Archbishop Jose H. Gomez, of Los Angeles, and president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), kneels in prayer prior to a statue of the Blessed Virgin Mary as he leads an unique liturgy in restoring the consecration of the
United States to the care of our Blessed Mother amidst the COVID-19 pandemic at the Cathedral of Our Woman of the Angels in Los Angeles, Friday, May 1, 2020. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, Pool) Commenting on the Press reporter‘s “award”and the catty editorial accompanying it, Catholic League President Bill Donohue suggests that the dissident paper’s disfavor is really a badge of honor that Gomez can use with pride. The archbishop’s November 4 speech that so riled up the Reporter’s editors was”one of the most fantastic addresses given up Catholic circles in recent memory, “Donohue asserts. Gomez stated in his address that an”elite leadership class has risen in our nations that has little interest in religious beliefs and no real attachments to the nations they reside in or to local traditions or cultures.”
“This group, which is in charge in corporations, federal governments, universities, the media, and in the cultural and expert facilities, wishes to establish what we might call a worldwide civilization,” the archbishop alerted.
“In this elite worldview, there is no requirement for old-fashioned belief systems and faiths,” he continued. “In fact, as they see it, religion, specifically Christianity, just obstructs of the society they wish to build.”
In his critique of “cancel culture” and “political correctness,” Gomez stated that “often what is being canceled and remedied are perspectives rooted in Christian beliefs– about human life and the human person, about marriage, the family, and more.”
Perhaps the Reporter‘s editors discovered the archbishop’s words particularly bothering since they realize they are aimed at them.